The pirate bay torrent site

The Pirates Bay often abbreviated as TPB is an online piracy website which has an index of up to a million different torrents and pirated content which includes movies, videos, books, images and more. Being a free pusher of entertainment media and software, the website sees millions of users daily to their piracy needs.

Developed by Swedish think tanks back in 2003, the website makes use of peer-to-peer connectivity to share large files between hundreds and thousands of users. On average, a new torrent uploaded on the website will be downloaded by up to 100,000 people (depending on what it is) which is currently only possible by the use of P2P technology because the costs are much less than dedicated servers.

There have been massive controversies in the past about the legality of the website and why it’s still allowed on the internet; after several attempts of taking the website down, which ranged from arresting the owners, to fighting legal court battles, the website has still not been taken down entirely at the end. Albeit there have been definite changes to the website’s functioning.

If you open up The Pirates Bay right now, you’ll see hundreds of thousands of torrent and search results over various types of files. Movies are one thing which are extremely popular on the website and games are another important download type which are featured on the website quite often.

E-books and “paid” instructional videos from various websites like Lynda are available free to pirate for anyone who wants to. Most program and software suits are also available on the website which range from download managers all the way to CAD software.

At the end of the day, the Pirates Bay experience is definitely not a legit one, and is borderline illegal (and completely in some parts) but for a lot of people, it’s their lifeline for new games, movies and software.